Funicular goods railway - help!!
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oliverhanmer said:
Hi All. Is it a really four and a half years since I first posted about this!? Thanks to however bumped it back on to the forum - it brought back a lot of great memories of getting it all working. Sadly the motor bit the dust a couple of years ago and the electrics became increasingly unreliable (remember I just provided the manual labour whilst Phil and Mark provided the expertise). I therefore took the decision to simplify the set up and bought a heavy duty winch instead - the winch pulls the box up the slope and the gradient and weight of the box means the winch controls its descent. So not quite in the spirit of pistonheads I am afraid but at least it all still works and continues to serve us extremely well. We will never forget the amount of time and effort that Phil and Mark put in and much of their hard work still remains in place. I have to say though that the videos of the domestic cable car set ups makes me think I should perhaps be a little more ambitious. But at the moment home schooling an 8 and 3 year old and trying to regulate barristers at the same time means I have to keep those ambitions in check for now. Maintaining social distance from delivery drivers is a breeze though. Driver puts the stuff in the box at the bottom and we collect it 30m away at the top!
Amazing project OP, as others' have said. Technology moves on, and an AC induction motor with starter windings is old hat now. Again, as others' have said, the way forward would be a brushless servo motor and inverter to replace the heritage motor, the rest remains as it is, electronic control, limit switches etc. A new servo motor and inverter would have the advantage of soft start and proportional controls allowing for a start profile rather than just on/off.Where abouts are you OP ?
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